file photo by Boyd Loving
July 7,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood
Westwood NJ, the Bergen County Prosecutor’s criminal investigation unit and a large contingent of police were conducting an investigation Thursday afternoon at the home of former Westwood council member and former Former Ridgewood Deputy Mayor Robert W. Miller, who pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges earlier this year. Authorities say the home is the scene of an “active investigation “. Miller served as a a Ridgewood councilman from 1996 to 1998.
Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal confirmed that the deaths of former Westwood and Ridgewood Councilman Bob Miller and his wife, Aecha, were apparent suicides.
Public records list Robert and Aecha Miller as the owners of the home at 430 Kinderkamack Rd., where the investigation was taking place. Neighbors reported seeing the couple over the weekend and that Robert Miller may have been wearing what appeared to be an ankle bracelet monitor.
In February Robert Miller, 67, pleaded guilty to federal charges, confessing that he sold phony massage therapy training certificates to women who worked as prostitutes at more than two dozen massage parlors in New Jersey. Miller resigned from public office in 2015 after seven years of service.
Neighbors told the Bergen Record that he noticed that Westwood police and Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office detectives were at the house at 1:30 p.m. and were still conducting an investigation at 3:45 p.m.
UPDATE: Mr. Miller and his spouse were both found dead in the house, the victims of a double suicide according to police.
Weird double suicide. Not murder, suicide?